I just hope there’s as much dancing as Link did in the 90s
(to get that url I had to click on “copy link”)
I wonder if Link will speak or not.
ngl, I’d lose it if his only line is a well-placed “well, eXcUsE mE, PrInCeSs!”
EDIT: I see that I am far from the only person to make this joke. Please accept my apologies for my lack of originality. For penance I shall spend an hour walking among ReDeads but not battling them.
i would like to present to you the concept of parallel development. you were just as original as everyone else who has the same thought that developed into the same shape. it’s the brainworm version of carcinization
I really hope Link is going to break some pots.
Scene: storeroom, deep beneath Hyrule castle.
Link: bumps into a ceramic pot, knocking it to the floor, shattering everywhere. Mixed in with the shards of pottery are several rupies.
Zelda: look of shock at what Link did.
Link: looks at pot, scared, then slowly looks up to Zelda.
Zelda: her gaze changes to a mischievous ear-to-ear grin.
Scene: pottery breaking music montage - everything in the storeroom is laid to waste.
wait wait link gets really high and scene cut to a bunch of pottery breaking sounds
People seem to be confused about why they thought this is a good idea, but to me this is expected.
I don’t follow what Miyamoto does much, but based on what I heard (like Chris Pratt Mario…) I feel he’s a showoff who probably wants ANY live-action movie of a Nintendo IP because it’d be cool. Zelda is the best one to qualify, maybe Metroid or Xenoblade (both of which are way less popular). They even tried more realism back with Twilight Princess.
I actually expect it’ll be more or less like the Mario movie again, an unimpressive but solid success.
I would love a Metroid film, but one that takes its cues from Moon where Samus is basically alone, but she has some kind of JARVIS-like companion with which to speak. Just big, abandoned spaces, punctuated by action set pieces.
This is so stupid. Why make this?
Uh, why? The art style is part of Zelda.
I was about to say she’s got way too many pixels.
I’m expecting a mediocre movie that’s an enjoyable watch, but ultimately forgettable. Same as the Mario movies.
I’m expecting Zelda will play just as large of a role in the film as Link.
Should’ve just hired studio ghibli to animate a beautiful and poignant anime adaptation. Might be okay. Likely gonna be garbage.
The Netflix one pice gives me hope but also that in itself is pretty cringy campy nonsense at the end of the day (but incredibly well done).
Just waiting for the line delivered in a fake English accent more or less to the tune of “you’re a legend… Zelda!”
That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read.
You must not have read very much.
I have been dreaming of a TLoZ movie since I was a child. However, as most video game adaptions, I expect this will be rather shitty. At least I try to. To keep the level of disappointment low.
Oh for fucks sake, they made Zelda a girl. Tired of this gender swapping woke shit. /s
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Don’t worry. They already confirmed they’ll do reshoots with Chris Pratt as Zelda.
I just want Yoko Ono to play Navi, and yell HEY!!! LISTEN!!!
I know this is facetious, but the mental image of Yoko Ono trying to act in a movie is making me upset for no understandable reason. Is like my unconscious hates her, for no reason I know or understand…
Bjork could do it though, and her screams are way less annoying.
Her name is Link, I’ll have you know.
And the page is bugged. I keep clicking on the Link to like and subscribe but it does nothing.
Uh, given the recent spate of … Nintendo movies… and fantasy shows… and the fact that Link is a silent protagonist (aside of basically grunts and exclamations of various emotional tones)…
I really don’t see any possible way this could be good.
Brought to you by the director of ‘Maze Runner’, which currently has ~66% critic and user review score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Now you are going to start a nerdy discussion whether Link really can’t talk, doesn’t want or like to talk or does indeed talk, even though not directly shown usually in the games.
There is plenty of reason to assume that he actually can talk fine, it was just omitted for convenience or immersion in the games. It was implied often by the dialogues thoughout various games.
Official mangas show him talking, dialogue options, or that e.g. Zelda learns Links name when asking him in OoT imply this as well.
Well EXCUUUUUUUSE ME! Princess…
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I actually liked maze runner (the first one), and I don’t think the director was the problem(s) with it more than the story and a few of the actors were
But yeah no shot a Zelda movie is decent
while I agree with you, I’m hoping they pull it off somehow.
some…how…
Somehow, good critic reviews returned
How much we want to bet the first big budget live action movie from the Zelda franchise will not feature Link as the main character or hero but will put the princess as the hero, main protagonist and will have to save Link from himself at some point?
I think that’s pretty unlikely, Link is the iconic Zelda character. It’s more likely they will go down the direction of making the two co-leads who meet early in the film and go on an adventure together to save Hyrule. I don’t think the old trope of “hero saves the princess”, or the modern reverse of that, will be a central part of the plot.
Why the photo of Zelda with a quiver then?
If Link doesn’t say “excuuuuuuuse me, princess” at least once, I will demand my money back.
ooh childhood cartoon flashbacks
As much as I want this to be good, I have a strong feeling it’s gonna be mid at best. Not a great director, screenwriters aren’t hitting, they have only released two actors names, and the producer is a mixed bag. I’m really hoping they can pull it out… but I’m definitely gonna keep my expectations low.
Legitimately, why do you hope it’s good? Why do you even care? Even if you like the games, this is not part of that. It isn’t interactive. Honestly, I don’t see why it exists, except that certain people will give them their money for any piece of garbage that has an IP they’ve attached themselves to for some reason.
I think mid is the best we can hope for. The only way it comes out great is it they go weird with it and tell a story like Majora’s Mask. By all accounts it looks like we’re going to get a Breath of the Wild type story, which is safe and fine but as a film isn’t anything above mid.
I’m hoping they tell a weird story.
So Mario Movie 2.5 then in terms of quality.
I really hope Eiji Aonuma was consulted for this. But nah, Miyamoto will have his whole liver-spotted hand in the pie and the story will be a total afterthought. Another “point-and-oooooh-I-know-that-thing!” movie.
I am very scared it will look like cosplay.
so, even worse than Wheel of Time stuff, then. I don’t really remember the costumes for that but I do remember they weren’t the main problem with the show, aside from being pristine. at least they weren’t low quality
is that show even still on? I don’t think I even made it through the second season because of how goddamn clean everything was. looked fake as shit
No, it was cancelled after the third season.
god that was such a disappointment
we could have had something so great
Anyone else feel like the time for this was 2008? Circa Twilight Princess? Fans were clamoring for a movie back then because the games hit peak “cinematic” around that time, TP directly references events of OoT, it feels like a continuity, a single story.
Now? They’ve done so much with the franchise that it’s become a paint color like Star Wars. Is there an appetite for it like there was 20 years ago?
Twilight Princess…20 years ago…
No. That can’t be right…
checks calander
…father time, you dick!
There was that remaster that came out just…
checks calendar
…10 years ago. 👴
How’s your back?
It’s painful, and making me captain aggravated!
My back pain is why I lost my mind.
It’s like it’s just saying “HEY LISTEN” over and over?
No mine is more of just a bell sound, because it heard the complaints from players about it talking all the time but it took it too literally.
There’s arguably a larger appetite now, the popularity of the Switch has brought the series to a massive new audience. I understand your point though, Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword were really the peak of the linear, story-driven epics. The newer games have moved away from that formula a bit. I suspect this first film (there will be more if it is well received) will tell a very classic Zelda story that references many core elements of the series (similar to the first Mario film).
There’s more appetite now than ever before. Over the half the total sales of the series are BOTW and TOTK. There’s a whole generation of fans for whom this era is the definitive era of Legend of Zelda.
That’s kind of my point. in BOTW and TOTK, the story is thin on the ground.
Literally. It’s thin, and it’s on the ground.
I’ve watched streamers who played BOTW first then play earlier games, and reacted with surprise at how much lore was in them.
I don’t see it failing, sheer force of brand recognition will fill theaters. I’m just not sure they’ll get anything good done.
Funny you should mention a Zelda movie 20 years ago:
They really captured the walking into lordaeron vibes (not to mention emo link)
Before watching, is this going to be A Fistful Of Rupees?
No, it’s some shit GuruLarry did? And Fistful Of Rupees isn’t up on Youtube anymore? But here it is on Dailymotion?
